A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



still remaining of this lease was granted to George 

 Ciiambers on the conviction for recusancy of Arthur 

 Darcy and his son Henry.*' In 1609 Henry, fourth 

 Lord Mordaunt, son of Lewis, died seised of the 

 manors of Great Addington, Thrapston, Lowick, Islip 

 and Slipton, and of the chantry of Great Addington.** 

 The manor of Great Addington passed with the barony 

 of Mordaunt and earldom of Peterborough until 18 14, 

 when the last Earl of Peterborough died without issue.** 



Lands in Great and Little Addington held by John 

 Pyel by the rent of a pair of gloves, were granted in 

 1357 by John Daundelyn the elder of Cianford, to 

 Adam Franceys, citizen of London, and Henry Pyel, 

 clerk.'" In 1386 a grant for life of 50 marks rent from 

 the manors of Inhlingborough, Sudborough, Great and 

 Little Addington was made by Simon Symeon and 

 John Curtys of Wennyngton (co. Hunts), who had 

 these manors from Henry Pyel, Archdeacon of 

 Northampton, and William Braybrook, by release from 

 John Pyel to Joan, the widow of John Pyel, citizen of 

 London.'^ Land in Addington held by Nicholas 

 Pyel was included among the fees held of Edmund 

 Earl of Stafford at his death in 1403.'^ The manors 

 held by the Pyels descended to the Cheyneys of 

 Irthlingborough, and after the death without issue of 

 Elizabeth Pyel were inherited, as her kinsman and 

 heir, by Sir Thomas Cheyney, Kt., son of Sir John 

 Cheyney, who settled them on his wife Anne. He 

 died in 15 14, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, then aged 

 nine and married to Thomas son and heir of Sir 



Nicholas Vaux of Harrowden. 



Margaret Vere, widow of Sir 

 George Vere, Kt., unsuccess- 

 fully claimed the manor" 

 which passed with IrthHng- 

 borough (q.v.) to the Vaux 

 family. Lord, Vaux of Har- 

 rowden. 



The abbot of Peterborough 

 held land in Great Addington 

 in the 12th century.'^ This 

 may have been the manor of 

 Great Addington which, with 

 the advowson of the rectory, 

 parcel of tlie possessions of the Abbey, was granted 

 to William, Lord Parr of Horton, in 1544.'° It 

 seems to have passed to Lewis Mordaunt, who with 

 WilHam le Hunt conveyed it in 1646 to Richard 

 Raymond and Thomas Watts.'* In 1649 Richard 

 Raynsford and Katherine his wife conveyed it to 

 Richard Andrew and Henry Paynter," in 1760 Robert 

 Lambe conveyed it to John Woodford, clerk.'* 



Early in the reign of Henry II (l 154-89) Arnold de 

 Pavilly (Papilio) granted a mill in Addington to Sulby 

 Abbey which was confirmed to the Abbey in the time 

 of Henry II.'» 



The Church of ALL SJlNTSconshu 



CHURCH of chancel 28 ft. by 14 ft. 4 in., with north 



chapel 15 ft. 3 in. by 10 ft., clcarstoried 



nave of three bays 39 ft. by 14 ft. 9 in., north and south 



\Uu.v. Cheeky argitit and 

 gules a chezeron azure 

 uittb three roses argent 

 thereon. 



aisles each 9 ft. 6 in wide, south porch, and west 

 tower lift. 4 in. by 12ft., all these measurements being 

 internal. The width across nave and aisles is 38ft. 6 in. 

 The chapel (the chantry of Our Lady) is a continua- 

 tion of the north aisle and covers the chancel about 

 half its length : it is now used as an organ chamber. 

 Further east is a modern vestry. 



The church is built of rubble and has plain parapets 

 and low-pitched leaded roofs, except to the porch, 

 which is covered with grey slates. The interior is 

 plastered. The chancel was restored in 1891, and the 

 nave roof renewed. 



Of the 12th-century aisleless church there are 

 traces in the large plinths beneath the piers of the 

 nave, embodying fragments of the former walls ; 

 and the south doorway of this building, with a round 

 arch carved with a row of chevron, and jamb-shafts 

 with foliated capitals, is now the outer doorway of the 

 south porch. The usual process of enlarging the 

 chancel and adding aisles to the nave was begun in 

 the later part of the 13th century, and further altera- 

 tions were made in the two following centuries, includ- 

 ing the addition of the south porch and of the tower. 



The work of rebuilding appears to have started with 

 the nave. The chancel and north chapel were built 

 about I300,and the string-course beneath the windows 

 is of this approximate date. At present the east 

 window and the three two-light windows in the 

 south wall are 15th-century insertions, much restored 

 in modern times. The eastern window on the south 

 side, however, is the original opening with inserted 

 tracery : the sill is lowered to form a sedile, and from 

 the east jamb of the window, within the opening, 

 there projects the bowl of a piscina with a cinquefoil- 

 headed niche behind. On the north side of the chancel 

 there is a small oblong squint from an old vestry, the 

 place of which has been taken by the modern building. 



The chancel communicates with the north chapel 

 by an arch of c. 1300, which is filled with early I5tli- 

 century screen-work. Another screen, later and more 

 formal in design, separates the chapel from the north 

 aisle. Immediately to the east of the arch from the 

 chancel, in the south wall of the chapel, is a projecting 

 half-octagon piscina with roses on the bowl, resting 

 upon a cluster of attached shafts, and having a small 

 ogee-headed hollow behind. There are two windows 

 in the north wall of tliis chapel. One, a two-light 

 14th-century opening, contains glass with shields of 

 arms. The other, set low in the wall, contains frag- 

 ments of 15th-century glass, and lights a recess in 

 which is the alabaster efligy of Sir Henry Vere 

 (d. 1493), founder of the chantry. The efligy has 

 already been described.*' 



The arch between nave and chancel, with semi- 

 circular responds, is contemporary with the nave 

 arcades. South of the arch, in the angle between the 

 south respond and the east respond of the south 

 arcade, a doorway, inserted in the I5tli century, leads 

 to a steep stair by which the rood-loft was approached. 

 The stair is corbelled out towards the south aisle. 



•' Pat. R. 7 Jai. I, pt. 47. 



" Chan. Inc|. p.m. (Scr. ii), cccix, 

 200. 



•• Rccov. R. Hil. 19 Jai. I, ro. 40; 

 1-2 Jai. II, ro. 62 ; Trin. 54 Ceo. Ill, ro. 

 •33 i If o' •■• '■'i*- Coi. Trin. 19 Jai. ; 

 Northanti. Hil. 14 Chai. I, 22 Chai. 1, 

 I and 2 Jai. II, 41 Geo. Ill; Pat. R. 



p.m. 



15 Chai. I, pt. 10; Chan. Inq. 

 (Scr. ii) di, 64 ; dii, 26. 



"• Cal. Close, 1354-60, p. 428. 



"Ibid. 1385-9, p. 143; Cloic R. 

 9 Ric. II. pt. i, m. 8. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ilcn. IV, no. 4. 



" Early Chan. Proc. bdlc. 587, no. 40. 



'« y.C.H. Nortbantt. i, 389a. 



158 



" /, &■ r. Hen. Fill, vol. xix (i) g. 141 



(75)- 



" Icct of F. Northanti. Mich. 22 

 Chai. I. " Ibid. Mich. 1649. 



'• I'cct of I". Northanti. Trin. 33 and 

 34 Geo. II. 



"Add. Ch. 21512. 



" J'.C.H. Nortbanli. i, 413. 



